It makes heavy use of posix threads, so the programs benefits a lot of systems with more than one CPU. Actually, it is a multithreaded floating-point benchmark.

Atfer unpacking, run the script "./run1.sh" to run a fast benchmark. "./run2.sh" runs a slower benchmark that creates bigger images. The script uses four threads,but you can adjust the scripts to use more threads or create even larger images(8000x8000 pixel are no problem, but it takes a while).

When the benchmark has run, another small program converts the images from Targaformat to Jpeg. The programs are compiled for 64 bit machines (-64 -mips4).

@Martin Steen: Thank you very much! I didn't dare to ask you to publish the fractal generator from the "SGI Art Gallery" thread, thought you might want to keep that closed - but you finally released it